what is brute force magic?

guess it's about half luck, half willpower, half circumstance.

all the vagaries and vicissitudes of fate; every ounce of concrete you can pour in your path.

it is the human superpower.

you can do it too, see: just take a potentially solvable problem by the largest part you can get your hands around, grapple with it for a bit, ideally take its back and choke it tf out.

like, how else does a species eventually trap towering jagged columns of airborne electric death into small portable boxes?

that is some truly intransigent shxt...even on a planet that has seen giraffes develop longer necks purely to spite the trees and crows teach their grandchildren to assail those who have wronged them, that kind of thing stands out for its pure persistence.

all the effort you can muster plus every trick in your bag equals...something. usually good, in my experience.

that's brute force magic.

...and like, it's not always some grand triumph, at least not the kind with slow motion aerial footage and a cheering crowd.

sometimes it's tuning out the noise long enough to appreciate even an okay day.

it is in the laugh shared with a cigarette in the razor-wind overnight hours after a shift, the one that just for a moment drowns out the question "how tf did I get here?"

it's getting a present for your 8th birthday from a parent who may have skipped dinner the night before because payday ain't until Friday.

it may be making choices you may not love today for a result that will fill your spirit some other sunrise.

someone I trust once phrased it "beating ideas into existence," which maybe doesn't make any literal kind of sense but it absolutely evokes the spirit of the concept.

people don't give enough credit to atheists for their faith...I am, more than most, defined by my faith. 

maybe my idea of divinity does not have a face, but I am no less devout a believer.

I believe in brute force magic. its mighty works have been demonstrated to mine eyes, and by its providence I shall be redeemed.

sufficiently energetic to break both boredom and bondage, brute force magic is the current that shapes our shared history and future. 

it is in our very own human hands.

all power to The People.

--Flor!